Lance Corporal 28626 William Oliver Rowlandson
The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser
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Regiment/Unit: South Lancashire Regiment - 7th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Age at death: 32
Date of death: 27th of May 1917
Born: Liverpool, Lancs
Resided: Wigan, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery - IV. B. 41.
BMD details:
Marriage: 31/08/1912 William Oliver Rowlandson to Sarah Ridgeway at Wigan, Lancashire. Vol 8c - Page 137.
Family details:
Husband of Sarah Rowlandson, of 29, Beech Hall St., Wigan. Address at enlistment: 52 Lingholme Road, St Helens.
Census details:
1891 - 6 years old schoolboy William O is living at 72 Poulton Street, North Meols, Ormskirk with parents Thomas (43), Isabella (37) and three siblings: John Charles Rowlandson (10), Robert Speddy Rowlandson (9), Gertrude Bessie Rowlandson (4). 1901 - 16 years old 'Laundry Vanman' William O is living at 80 Zelland Street, Southport with parents Thomas (53), Isabella (47) and three siblings: John Charles (20), Herbert S (19), Gertrude B (14). 1911 - Sees 26 years old 'Laundry Vanman' William O boarding at 56 Kendal Street, Wigan with brother Herbert Speddy Rowlandson (29), his wife Alice Ann Rowlandson (26) and their three children: Douglas Cliver Rowlandson (5), Stanley Rowlandson (4), Bessie Rowlandson (2).
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=12]Remembered On the Ormskirk Street Memorial, St Helens.[/url] Rowlands W O on the Cenotaph.
[url=lmem.php?lmem=12]Remembered On the Ormskirk Street Memorial, St Helens.[/url] Rowlands W O on the Cenotaph.
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[pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/RowlandsonWO_SLR.jpg[/pic][caption]The gravestone of Lance Corporal William Oliver Rowlandson at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery
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